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Radio Free Europe employs 1,600 people, 960 of them at its headquarters in Munich. Operating on a $21 million budget, it broadcasts a total of 557 hours each week in native language to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. About half of the programs is news and analysis of events in the various East bloc countries. Other programs range from music hours featuring the latest Western rock to special reports on living conditions of foreign workers in Western Europe...
...Strings. Bangladesh, whose existence as an independent nation had previously been acknowledged only by India and Bhutan, was formally recognized last week by East Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Mongolia and Burma. Pakistan angrily served notice that it would sever diplomatic relations with all nations that did so-a policy that will surely prove untenable as more countries follow suit. Britain, which has already promised aid to Bangladesh through the U.N., is expected to provide recognition in a few weeks. Despite the urgings of Senators Edward Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey that the U.S. recognize Bangladesh, the White House last week said that...
...citizens will be issued a special passport, good for travel within the bloc and valid for five years. East Germany and Rumania plan to waive visas for each other's citizens in time for a summer rush to Rumania's Black Sea resorts, and Poland and Bulgaria are negotiating a similar agreement...
...Dacca, the fledgling Bangladesh government swore in five new Cabinet ministers, and announced that it would seek a trade and technical assistance treaty with the Soviet Union to help with reconstruction. Poland and Bulgaria have also offered to enter trade pacts with Bangladesh. A more immediate problem was to prevent a possible massacre of 30,000 Biharis who were in a virtual state of siege within the workers' quarters and factory facilities of a jute mill near Dacca. The non-Bengali Moslems have reaped a whirlwind of anger because many of them collaborated with the Pakistani army throughout...
...been under way to elevate Brezhnev to the No. 1 spot in name as well as fact. There was some speculation in Moscow that Brezhnev's backers would seek to create for him a new all-powerful Council of State, along the lines of similar bodies in Bulgaria, East Germany and Rumania, that would give him the top state job as well as the ranking party post. Other speculations held that Brezhnev would shove Kosygin aside and take over both government and party leadership just as Nikita Khrushchev...